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SCEE has been fined £250,000 by the UK Information Commissioners Office over the infamous 2011 PSN date breach that sparked a panic among the press and gamers for fear that credit card data and other sensitive information was at risk. A video statement has been issued by the ICO on the matter this morning.

Hacktivist group Anonymous is looks to raise awareness of its cause by staging a number of four-hour sit-ins at Sony stores around the world. This is likely to be more popular with gamers than the group’s recent attacks on PSN.

George “GeoHot” Hotz has confirmed that he’s in South America, but only on a holiday paid for last November, while his attorney has hit back at Sony allegations of the hacker refusing to hand over hardware related to PS3 hacking.

According to Sony, Geohot, the hacker currently being sued by the firm for publishing PS3′s root key earlier this year, has fled the US as an “excuse” for not turning over hard drives as per a court order.

George GeoHot Hotz’s lawyers have accused Sony of deliberately misleading courts as to which of its national divisions owns the PlayStation 3 software development kit, in order to gain otherwise illegal access to the hacker’s hard drives.

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SCEE has been fined £250,000 by the UK Information Commissioners Office over the infamous 2011 PSN date breach that sparked a panic among the press and gamers for fear that credit card data and other sensitive information was at risk. A video statement has been issued by the ICO on the matter this morning.

Hacktivist group Anonymous is looks to raise awareness of its cause by staging a number of four-hour sit-ins at Sony stores around the world. This is likely to be more popular with gamers than the group’s recent attacks on PSN.

George “GeoHot” Hotz has confirmed that he’s in South America, but only on a holiday paid for last November, while his attorney has hit back at Sony allegations of the hacker refusing to hand over hardware related to PS3 hacking.

According to Sony, Geohot, the hacker currently being sued by the firm for publishing PS3′s root key earlier this year, has fled the US as an “excuse” for not turning over hard drives as per a court order.

George GeoHot Hotz’s lawyers have accused Sony of deliberately misleading courts as to which of its national divisions owns the PlayStation 3 software development kit, in order to gain otherwise illegal access to the hacker’s hard drives.

Wait, Geohot’s decided to open fire on another ultra corporation – even with his face still stinging from Sony’s giant lawsuit-slapping hand? Why, that’s absolutely preposterou– Huh? Microsoft’s offering a free phone, you say? And thus concludes the part of the ride where the world makes sense.

Hacker group fail0verflow, which was partly responsible for the recent security key generation hack on PS3, has issued a response on its website after Sony started legal proceedings against it earlier this week. The group claims the only reason it hacked the console was over Sony’s “removal of OtherOS”.